THE ELECTRONIC ZOO (Part 5 of 5) A List of Animal-Related Computer Resources (Electronic Mailing Lists, Bulletin Board Systems, Gophers, Mail Servers, Usenet Newsgroups, & FTP Sites) Version 2.0 (last revised: November 25, 1993) Compiled by: Ken Boschert, DVM Associate Director Washington University Division of Comparative Medicine Box 8061, 660 South Euclid Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: 314-362-3700 Fax: 314-362-6480 E-mail: ken@wudcm.wustl.edu ============================================================================= Continued from Part 4 ============================================================================= ============================================================================= GOPHER SITES ============================================================================= The Internet Gopher is a distributed document delivery service. It allows users to explore, search and retrieve information residing on different locations via series of nested menus. Menu choices may be located either on the local server site or on remote sites served by other Gopher servers. Information in a Gopher can be a text or binary file, directory information, images, or sounds. In addition, Gopher offers gateways to other information systems (World-Wide Web, WAIS, Archie, WHOIS) and network services (Telnet, FTP). Gopher uses the client-server model to provide access to Gopherspace. You must be on a TCP/IP network (the Internet) in order to use a client on your computer to access Gopher. Public domain clients for accessing a Gopher server are available for: Macintosh, MS/DOS, OS/2, VM/CMS, VMS, NeXT, Unix, X-Window. The clients are available for anonymous FTP from many FTP sites (eg, boombox.micro.umn.edu in the directory /pub/gopher). Some sites allow public access via Telnet to a client. To access such a remote client, telnet to one of these sites: University of Minnesota Gopher (The Mother Gopher) Access to other services, gophers, and documents Internet: telnet to consultant.micro.umn.edu or 134.84.132.4 At the login prompt, enter: gopher For information about Gopher servers in general, send e-mail to the Gopher development team at the U. of Minnesota: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu Other public Gopher Sites; telnet to: gopher.uiuc.edu or 128.174.33.160 gopher North America panda.uiowa.edu or 128.255.40.201 gopher North America infopath.ucsd.edu infopath North America gopher.sunet.se or 192.36.125.2 gopher Europe info.anu.edu.au or 150.203.84.20 info Australia tolten.puc.cl or 146.155.1.16 gopher South America gan.ncc.go.jp or 160.190.10.1 gopher Japan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Specific Gopher Sites) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACADEME THIS WEEK The Chronicle of Higher Education Gopher Internet: gopher to chronicle.merit.edu or 35.1.1.98 Contact: E-mail to: chronicle-help@chronicle.merit.edu Call Judith Turner or Ed Piou at The Chronicle of Higher Education Phone: 202-466-1000 Description: The Chronicle of Higher Education sponsors "ACADEME THIS WEEK," a free electronic service on the Internet. "ACADEME THIS WEEK" will include: 1. A guide to the news in the current week's issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2. A calendar of the week's events in academe. 3. A schedule of the week's events in Washington, D.C., of interest to the men and women of academe. 4. The week's important deadlines for fellowships, grant applications, exchange programs, and more. 5. A listing of hundreds of job openings at colleges, universities, and other non-profit institutions worldwide. The job announcements come from The Chronicle's "Bulletin Board" section -- the world's largest academic-job marketplace. New edition available every Tuesday at noon, Eastern time (US). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGRICULTURE & BIOLOGY North Carolina State University Internet: gopher to dewey.lib.ncsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY Internet: gopher to gopher.uth.tmc.edu Description: The American Physiological Society (APS) Information Server provides for the electronic distribution of APS information, documents and publications via the National Research and Education Network (NREN)/Internet. The American Physiological Society offers Tables of Contents for the following journals: Advances in Physiology Education, American Journal of Physiology (6 consolidated journals), Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology News in Physiological Sciences, Physiological Reviews, and The Physiologist. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION (ATCC) DATABASES NIH Internet: gopher to atcc.nih.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVES Bird Related Information Internet: gopher to vitruvius.cecer.army.mil ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIODIVERSITY GOPHER Brazil Internet: gopher to bdt.ftpt.br ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIODIVERSITY & BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS Harvard University Internet: gopher to huh.harvard.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOETHICS ONLINE SERVICE GOPHER Medical College of Wisconsin Internet: gopher to post.its.mcw.edu Description: The Bioethics Online Service is an information resource of the Center for the Study of Bioethics and the Health Information Technology Center (HITC) of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Contact: Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD Bioethics Online Service Information Technology Services Medical College of Wisconsin 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOINFORMATICS Australian National University Internet: gopher to life.anu.edu.au Description: ANU's Bioinformatics Facility provides information on Internet under a number of themes. At present the major themes include: biodiversity; bioinformatics & biocomputing; biomathematics & biostatistics; complex systems; general interest; landscape ecology and the environment; molecular biology; neurosciences; viruses; and weather & global monitoring. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOLINE PUBLICATIONS GOPHER Online publication and delivery of full text and graphics for the bioscience community. Campinas, Brasil Internet: gopher to bdt.ftpt.br or 192.207.195.1 Description: BIOLINE PUBLICATIONS has been set up to help make information more easily available online to the vast community of scientists in universities, institutes and industry, government and regulatory people via the Internet. Focuses on the biosciences (biotechnology, biodiversity, biopolicy, bioinformatics) Using the Internet network, 'readers' may browse and search without cost through large quantities of abstracts, summaries and contents lists, using simple menus, or keywords and phrases to search across the whole system. Full text and associated graphics of material of interest can be ordered online and e-mailed to the reader's computer. Access to Journal abstracts, report summaries and contents lists is available free to all; readers must subscribe to Bioline Publications in order to receive the full text/graphics of documents of interest. Additional registration with the publishers of commercial journals is necessary if full text and graphics of scientific papers are required. Information on registration is available from the main menu of Bioline Publications. The cost of commercial journals is considerably less than the printed version. Contact: Bioline Publications Stainfield House Stainfield, Bourne, Lincs PE10 0RS, UK Phone: +44 778 570618 FAX: +44 778 570175 E-mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOLOGICAL COMPUTING Oregon State University Internet: gopher to gopher.bcc.orst.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOLOGY University of California - Santa Barbara Internet: gopher to ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, port 3001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOING Bio Oriented INternet Gophers Internet: gopher to merlot.welch.jhu.edu Description: Search through the titles of items in Bio-Gopher space and access the items returned. This Bio-veronica style database is called: BOING - Bio Oriented INternet Gophers. Search for your topic of interest. You can use booleans (and, or, not) and wildcards (*) to restrict or broaden your searches. Searchable directories of scientists and research projects currently funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and genome researchers funded by several other departments, together with several topical directories, are available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAMIS Center for Advanced Medical Informatics at Stanford University Internet: gopher to camis.stanford.edu Description: The CAMIS gopher features much of the usual and the following: (1) technical report abstracts from the last 10 years from the Knowledge Systems Laboratory (which includes the Section on Medical Informatics and the Heuristic Programming Project); (2) an extensive collection of Mac documentation (including Word 5, Canvas and other applications); and (3) a search test directory, originally designed for testing the NeXT's Digital Librarian indexing) that now can be used to test the searching capabilities of Don Gilbert's WAIS enhancements (in the About the CAMIS Gopher directory). It's simple, but especially useful for novices like myself to figure out what you will get with a particular search on a small, well-defined database. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CANCERNET PDQ Internet: gopher to gopher.nih.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CYFER-NET USDA Extension Service Gopher Internet: gopher to cyfer.esusda.gov Description: This server is set up to provide access to the information from the USDA Extension Service and the National Agriculture Library. This gopher server is maintained by the USDA Extension Service. Contact: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Johns Hopkins University Internet: gopher to merlot.welch.jhu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- C.A.U.Z. Gopher Consortium of Aquariums, Universities, and Zoos Internet: telnet to vax.csun.edu At the USERNAME prompt, enter: INFO Description: The Consortium of Aquariums, Universities and Zoos goals are to bring scientists and educators at universities into closer working relations with their counterparts at zoos and aquariums. C.A.U.Z. has now grown into an international network of some 650 people in 332 institutions in 19 countries. These people submit information about their interests and professional focus - as well as their current research projects - and this information is published each summer in the annual C.A.U.Z. Directories. Most of the directory is now available on our campus Gopher. Contact: Donna FitzRoy Hardy Professor of Psychology California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, California 91330 USA Phone: 818-885-4970 [2827 for messages] FAX: 818-885-2829 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE Boston, MA Internet: gopher to gopher.dfci.harvard.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECOGOPHER University of Virginia Internet: gopher to ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENTOMOLOGY GOPHER University of Delaware Internet: gopher to bluehen.ags.udel.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIROGOPHER Environmental Gopher Internet: telnet to envirolink.org At the login prompt, enter: gopher Contact: The EnviroLink Network 4551 Forbes Avenue - Third Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Voice: (412) 681-8300 Fax: (412) 681-6707 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERIN Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) Newsletter (Australia) Internet: gopher to huh.harvard.edu or kaos.erin.gov.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY Worcester Foundation Internet: gopher to sci.wfeb.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENSION SERVICE GOPHER USDA Information Internet: gopher to zeus.esusda.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL REGISTER Internet: gopher to gopher.netsys.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDIX Federal Information Exchange Internet: gopher to fedix.fie.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GBASE (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MOUSE GENOME) Mouse Chromosome Genetic Maps Internet: gopher to merlot.welch.jhu.edu Description: View the genetic maps of each mouse chromosome, search for specific loci on these maps as well as search for references and notes associated with each locus on the map. In addition you can search the Mouse Locus Catalog which contains detailed information on mouse loci. The Encyclopedia of the Mouse Genome is built and maintained at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor Maine. For further information about the Encyclopedia contact davidnaman@jax.org at the Jackson Laboratory. The Gopher version of the Encyclopedia has been created by Dan Jacobson at Johns Hopkins University. Contact: e-mail to Dan Jacobson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRIN National Genetic Resources Program USDA Agricultural Research Service Internet: gopher to gopher.ars-grin.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEALTHLINE University of Montana Student Health Services Internet: gopher to selway.umt.edu port 700 (NOT 70!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IUBIO BIOLOGY ARCHIVE Indiana University Internet: gopher to ftp.bio.indiana.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- JACKSON LABORATORY Mouse Genome Database Internet: gopher to hobbes.jax.org or 192.43.249.93 Contact: Alexander G. Smith ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MARVEL Internet: gopher to marvel.loc.gov Description: One stop source for a multitude of government material -- Congressional information, Census data, White House documents, crime statistics, State Department reports and more -- taken from a variety of sources. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS Internet: gopher to isumvs.iastate.edu Description: Though not technically government information, material safety data sheets are produced by chemical manufacturers to comply with a variety of government regulations. They provide safety data on hundreds of chemicals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (MMWR) MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT Internet: gopher to odie.niaid.nih.gov Description: Full text of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weekly journal, available long before libraries receive the paper edition. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY U.S. Department of Agriculture Internet: gopher to locus.nalusda.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA REFERRAL SERVICE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Internet: gopher to scilibx.ucsc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASE (NIAID) GOPHER Internet: gopher to gopher.niaid.nih.gov Description: Full text of NIAID press releases, AIDS information publications, institute directories and more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH) GOPHER Internet: gopher to gopher.nimh.nih.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH GOPHER Division of Computer Research and Technology Internet: telnet to gopher.nih.gov or 128.231.128.13 port 70 At the login prompt, enter: gopher Questions/comments to: gopher@gopher.nih.gov Description: Provides access to a broad range of NIH resources, including institute phone books and calendars, library catalogs, molecular biology databases, full text of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, files containing AIDS and cancer information and more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE GOPHER Internet: gopher to el-gopher.med.utah.edu Description: Full text of library fact sheets and current bibliographies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) GOPHER National Environmental Data Referral Service Internet: gopher to scilibx.ucsc.edu Description: NOAA catalog provides keyword access to sources of environmental information nationwide. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Internet: gopher to stis.nsf.gov or 128.150.195.40 Description: Provides a wide variety of government information including easy access to many U.S. government gophers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Center for Biological Timing Internet: gopher to gopher.virginia.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND HEALTH Department of Energy Internet: gopher to gopher.ns.doc.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIMATE INFORMATION NETWORK Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center Internet: gopher to gopher.primate.wisc.edu or saimiri.primate.wisc.edu Internet: telnet to telnet.wiscinfo.wisc.edu At the login prompt, enter: wiscinfo Choose: UW-Madison Information Servers Wisconsin Primate Research Center Server Questions/Comments to: jacobsen@primate.wisc.edu Help Line: 608-263-3512 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Natural History Gopher Internet: gopher to nmnhgoph.si.edu or 160.111.64.84 Description: The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History is pleased to announce the Smithsonian Natural History Gopher Server. With over 120 million collections and 135 professional scientists, the National Museum of Natural History is one of the world's largest museums devoted to natural history and anthropology. This server will provide access to data associated with the collections, and information and tools for the study of the natural world. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology includes checklists of known species names. Currently the Mammal Species of the World have been posted. We plan to expand this to include Amphibians, Fishes, etc. Contact: Don Gourley Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Internet: gopher to info.umd.edu Description: Full text of Supreme Court decisions issued since 1989. Also includes brief biographies of Court justices. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SCIENTIST Newsletter Internet: gopher to internic.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED NATIONS Internet: gopher to nywork1.undp.org Description: Full text of U.N press releases, U.N. Conference on Environment and Development reports, United Nations Development Programme documents, U.N. telephone directories and more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- USDA AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE Internet: gopher to cyfer.esusda.gov or ace.esusda.gov Description: Includes information from the USDA Extension Service, National Agriculture Library and Americans Communicating Electronically (ACE) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERTEBRATE MUSEUM University of California-Berkeley Internet: gopher to ucmp1.berkeley.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERTEBRATE WORLD GOPHER SERVER Colorado State University Internet: gopher to neptune.rrb.colostate.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIRUS GOPHER SERVER Australian National University Bioinformatics Facility Internet: gopher to life.anu.edu.au Description: The approved names of virus families/groups and members are now available on-line from the Australian National University's Bioinformatics Facility. Contact: Dr Cornelia Buchen-Osmond Research School of Biological Research Australian National University GPO Box 475 Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61-6-249-4842 Fax: 61-6-249-0758 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHITE HOUSE INFORMATION Internet: gopher to sunsite.unc.edu Description: Full text of major policy statements, daily press briefings, speeches, proclamations, the president's daily schedule and more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Internet: gopher to gopher.who.ch Contact: WHO Internet Gopher Root Server Administrator Information Technology Office (ITO) World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Phone: +41 22 791 2434 FAX: +41 22 791 0746 E-mail: or ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Miscellaneous Gopher Sites of Interest) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- {*NOTE* Specific access information under construction in this document} {*NOTE* All these gophers can be found once connected to a gopherserver} Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTERnet) Museum of Paleontology Gopher, Berkeley National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gopher U. Georgia Zoology Department U. Western Australia Virology Gopher ============================================================================= Miscellaneous Internet Resources ============================================================================= ARCHIE Electronic directory service for locating files and information in anonymous FTP sites on the Internet. Internet: telnet to: (your closest geographic location) At the login prompt, enter: archie archie.au Australia archie.funet.fi Finland archie.th-darmstadt.de Germany archie.doc.ic.ac.uk Great Britain archie.cs.huji.ac.il Israel archie.wide.ad.jp Japan archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Japan archie.sogang.ac.kr Korea archie.nz New Zealand archie.luth.se Sweden archie.ncu.edu.tw Taiwan archie.ans.net USA archie.rutgers.edu USA archie.sura.net USA archie.unl.net USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNC BBS University of North Carolina Bulletin Board System Access to Library of Congress & nationwide libraries Internet: telnet to launchpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80 At the login prompt, enter: launch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WAISTATION Wide Area Information Service Internet: telnet to quake.think.com or 192.31.181.1 swais.cwis.uci.edu or 128.200.15.2 sunsite.unc.edu or 152.2.22.81 At the login prompt, enter: swais ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES News, Speeches Mail to: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org In the subject of the letter, enter: help FTP to: sunsite.unc.edu or 152.2.22.81 in /home3/wais/white-house-papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) Access to various documents, lists, and services Internet: telnet to eies2.njit.edu or 128.235.1.43 (USA) fatty.law.cornell.edu or 132.236.108.5 (USA) info.cern.ch or 128.141.201.74 (Switzerland) vms.huji.ac.il or 128.139.4.3 (ISRAEL) ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu or 129.237.1.30 (USA) At the login prompt, enter: www ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD WINDOW Washington University Internet Services Access to Gopher & other Internet Services Internet: telnet to library.wustl.edu or 128.252.173.4 At the login prompt, enter your terminal type, then bypass username prompt with another carriage return. ============================================================================= DIALUP BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS (NON-INTERNET) ============================================================================= ***NOTE*** The computer systems (BBS's) listed in this section are NOT accessible via the Internet unless otherwise stated. In other words, you need a modem to dial in and connect to these systems. In most instances, I have included both the phone number of the system and a voice line in case you need help. Modem speeds range from 1200 - 16800 baud and the modem settings (i.e., N-8-1) stands for No Parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFIP BBS Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Bulletin Board System Modem: 202-576-2911 Help Line: 202-576-2453 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AG-BBS California State University-Fresno Modem: 209-294-4819 Help line: 209-294-2547 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY FORUM (ALF) BBS USDA National Agricultural Library Bulletin Board System Modem: 301-504-8510 / 301-504-5111 / 301-504-5496 / 301-504-5497 Help Line: 301-504-5113 12/24/96/144/16800 baud, N-8-1 Note: Also available via Telnet to FEDWORLD Internet: telnet to fedworld.doc.gov Login to FedWorld for the first time requires a user to register on FedWorld, then access the Gateway system via the "D" command from the main conference. Entry of another "D" brings up the list of federal systems for selection. Enter "2" to select ALF. After the first registration, a user may enter "D D 2" to make an immediate link to ALF from the main FedWorld menu. Description: ALF is a convenient, economical tool for electronically accessing information about NAL'S programs, projects, products and services. It provides a forum for exchanging information among agricultural libraries, information centers and others in the agricultural field. This BBS contains extensive up-to-date bibliographies on many topics related to agriculture and other areas. These are updated on a regular basis. These are from searches on AGRICOLA. ALF is open to anyone. The board is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMNET ON-LINE Animal Rights Bulletin Board System Modem: 303-364-2257 Help Line: 303-680-9011 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 SysOp: James Cherry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANIMAL HOUSE BBS Modem: 609-488-4527 12/24/96/19200 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEENET INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS The BEE Bulletin Board System Amsterdam, Holland Modem: 31-20-6764105 Description: Disseminates bee-software and text files all over Europe. Aims for the Beenet include: making (scientific and other) knowledge available to the common beekeeper of Europe. The only requirement is the ownership or availability of a computer, modem, a telephone line, and communication software. Contact: Hugo Veerkamp THE BEE BBS P.O. BOX 51008 1007EA AMSTERDAM the NETHERLANDS ***Other BEENET SYSTEMS*** Name Location System Operator Modem Number WILDBEES BBS California USA Andy Nachbaur 209-826-8107 APIMO BBS Mariager Denmark Jorn Johanesson 45-98-583997 ECONNECT BBS Prague CSR Vojtech Kment 42-2-802908 AMIGABEE BBS London UK Steven Turner 44-81-695-5328 EXCALIBUR BBS Luebeck Germany Dirk Benemann 49-451-46093 CUCUMBER CITY BBS Vasteras Sweden John Haglof 46-21-333282 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOTRON American Foundation for Biological Sciences The Biologist's Electronic Network (BioScience) Modem: 202-628-2427 Help Line: 202-628-1500 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIRD INFO NETWORK BBS Modem: 303-423-9775 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK BAG BBS Medical Information Bulletin Board Modem: 302-994-3772 Fidonet Address: 1:150/140 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLORADO CONNECTION BBS Bird Info Network & Birdnet Modem: 303-423-9775 Help Line: 303-422-6529 (fax) 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 P.O. Box 632 Arvada, CO 80001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPU-FARM BBS Alberta Agriculture Modem: 403-556-4104 Help line: 403-556-4243 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRO BBS Environmental Bulletin Board System Modem: 703-524-1837 Help Line: 703-522-5427 12/24/96/14400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPA BBS Environmental Protection Agency Modem: 919-541-5742 Help Line: 202-260-6523 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 Notes: This number is the master gateway to 10 different EPA BBSes, most of which are only available through this number. Contact: Dave Rejeski ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDWORLD GATEWAY BBS National Technical Information Service Modem: 703-321-8020 Help Line: 703-487-4608 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FLORIDA FISHLINE Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Modem: 904-488-3773 Help Line: 904-488-4066 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 Fidonet address: 1:3605/32 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPO BBS Government Printing Office Bulletin Board System Modem: 202-512-1387 Help Line: 202-512-1524 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HERP-NET BBS Herpetology Online Network Modem: 215-464-3562/215-698-1905 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 SysOp: Mark F. Miller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LABBS American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) Lab Animal Bulletin Board System Modem: 901-758-0401/901-758-0402 Help Line: 901-754-8620 12/24/96/144/16800 baud, N-8-1 SysOps: Ken Boschert, DVM Paul Merz Enrique Morales AALAS 70 Timber Creek Drive, Suite 5 Cordova, TN 38018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL BIOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROGRAM BBS Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Modem: 800-624-2723 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIH GRANT LINE National Institutes of Health Modem: 301-402-2221 12/2400 baud, E-7-1 Note: When you get a response indicating that you have been connected, then type ,GEN1 (the comma is mandatory) and press ENTER; you will be prompted by the NIH system for "INITIALS?". Type BB5 and press ENTER. You will then be prompted for "ACCOUNT?". Type CCS2 and press ENTER. Description: The purpose of NIH Grant Line is to make program and policy information of the Public Health Service (PHS) agencies rapidly available to the biomedical research community. Most of the research opportunity information available on this bulletin board is derived from the weekly publication, "NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts", consisting of Notices, RFAs, RFPs (announcements of availability), Numbered Program Announcements, and statements of PHS policy. The electronic version known as E-Guide is available for electronic transmission each week, sometimes a day or two in advance of the nominal Friday publication dates. The material consists predominantly of statements about the research interests of the PHS Agencies, Institutes, and National Centers that have funds to support research in the extramural community. The information found on the NIH Grant Line is grouped into three main sections: (1) short News Flashes that appear without any prompting shortly after you have logged on; (2) Bulletins that are for reading; and (3) Files that are intended mainly for downloading. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOAH (Network of Animal Health) American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA Network) Description: National electronic communications network for AVMA members and affiliated groups. Available in 1994 Contact: Karl Wise <71151.2646@compuserve.com> Jim Brewer <70641.1337@compuserve.com> AVMA 1931 North Meacham Road, Suite 100 Schaumburg, IL 60173-4360 Phone: 708-925-8070 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OSPREY'S NEST BBS Birders Bulletin Board System Modem: 301-989-9036 12/24/9600 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RABBIT CONNECTION BBS House Rabbit Society Modem: 508-777-0648 Help Line: 508-750-8447 12/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH ARIZONA BIRDING BBS Modem: 602-881-4280 Help Line: 602-323-2955 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAXACOM BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM An Electronic Service for Biosystematics Modem: 716-896-7581 Help Line: 716-896-5200 1200/2400 baud, N-8-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIN Veterinary Information Network America Online Description: National Communications Network for Veterinarians Contact: Duncan Ferguson, DVM Paul Pion VINgram Veterinary Information Network, Inc. 1411 W. Corvell Blvd., Suite 106-131 Davis, CA 95616 Phone: 800-700-4636 FAX: 916-757-6881 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WILDBEES BBS Bee Bulletin Board System California, USA Modem: 209-826-8107 Contact: Andy Nachbaur ============================================================================= Acknowledgements and References: The world is divided into lumpers and splitters. The following individuals have made enormous contributions to the collective Internet community in their respective arenas. I gratefully acknowledge their efforts and recommend you obtain the following documents from their respective FTP sites. 1. NOT JUST COWS A Guide to Internet/Bitnet Resources in Agriculture and Related Sciences Compiled by: Wilfred Drew FTP to ftp.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 in /pub/nic/agricultural.list 2. INTERNET/BITNET HEALTH SCIENCES RESOURCES Compiled by: Lee Hancock FTP to ftp.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 in /pub/nic/medical.resources.2-23 3. A BIOLOGIST'S GUIDE TO INTERNET RESOURCES Compiled by: Una R. Smith FTP to rtfm.mit.edu 18.70.0.226 in /pub/usenet/news.answers/biology/guide 4. SPECIAL INTERNET CONNECTIONS Compiled by: Scott Yanoff FTP to csd4.csd.uwm.edu in /pub/inet.services.txt 5. GOPHER JEWELS Compiled by: David Riggins 6. AIM RELATED INTERNET RESOURCES Compiled by: David Tong 7. DIRECTORY OF SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES (7th REVISION) Compiled by: Diane Kovacs FTP to ksuvxa.kent.edu in /library/acadlist.* 8. INTERNET SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Compiled by: Blake Gumprecht ============================================================================= (C) 1993 - Changes to this document are not allowable without the author's written consent. Reproduction and distribution of this document without permission are allowable as long as it is left fully intact. Ken Boschert, DVM Associate Director Washington University ^ ^ Division of Comparative Medicine ( / \ ) Box 8061, 660 S. Euclid Ave. O O St. Louis, MO 63110 \ / Phone: 314-362-3700 =\/= FAX: 314-362-6480 E-mail: ken@wudcm.wustl.edu ============================================================================= ###